Donald Trump boasted that the upcoming season is the best ever and promised the star power of its cast “blows ‘Dancing With the Stars’ away.”

The show won’t debut till March 14 but threw an introductory news conference in October, with sworn-to-secrecy reporters meeting the contenders.

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Maybe the most “interesting” (to use Trump’s pet adjective) is Blagojevich, booted from office a year ago and awaiting trial. Vaulted to infamy by headlines and punch lines, he’s charged with scheming to sell an appointment to fill President Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat, fund-raising abuses and other crimes.

Blagojevich “continues to receive offers and opportunities, most of which he turns down because they are not the right fit,” his spokesman said.

“The conventional thinking among a lot of traditional lawyers is that you simply don’t do these things, you don’t say anything, you hide somewhere until you have your day in court,” said Blagojevich last fall.

By contrast, his instinct is “to fight back,” he explained, which maybe helps account for his participation on the show.

“It’s a wilderness period for me,” Blagojevich acknowledged. “But sometimes real opportunities develop in your life’s journey that you can’t really see when you’re facing tumultuous times and the kind of storm that I’m facing.”

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Blagojevich’s charity: the Children’s Cancer Center in Tampa. It got $10,000 from his wife Patti Blagojevich’s participation in the ABC reality show “I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me out of Here!” It took that money after two other charities passed.

i despise donald trump with a passion. i don’t know why he and his ugly and personality-devoid children on are tv.

as for blago, i haven’t heard all the evidence against him, but what i have heard doesn’t sound to me like anything other than what every other politician does. i wonder what it was that put him on the justice dept.’s radar. that said, i think he’s an egotistical ass, but he’s entertaining, so i’ll continue to pick on him when i get the opportunity.

and because nbc doesn’t seem to know their asses from a hole in the wall. i wonder if the people who continue to put the apprentice on tv are the same who thought it would be a fab idea to have jay leno on at 10:00 five times a week.

Its amazing what passes for intertainment on the tube. Blago can score points with the Donald teaching him how to use gold and intercouse in a sentence. Goldberg? What, Nature Boy Rick Fleer wasn’t available? Should do a series with nothing but has been raslers. I’d love to see The Texas Rattlesnake throw him through a window. Oh, and a heads up. Going to need a Sheriff Joe poster real soon!

the apprentice is all about making money. what’s blago going to sell? he doesn’t have any more senate seats, and i doubt he has too many people who want to admit he’s their buddy on national tv. that doesn’t matter though. the donald will keep finding excuses to keep him and get rid of the others.

they don’t get to keep the money. it goes to charity. the whole premise of the show is stupid. it all comes down to who knows the most rich people and can squeeze them for enough money. it’s really just an hour-long commercial for one of trump’s hotels or golf courses or whatever.